The real story of the partisan Silvio Corbari. He starts his career killing publicly one of his friends that was a fascist. Than he set up a band of partisans in north Italy completely independent from the Italian organized resistance (CLN). Ines leave his husband to join the band and became Silvio's lover. Silvio Corbari succeeded also to set up a free-zone his personal republic independent from the Nazi occupied Italy in a little village called Tregnano. But the opponent Nazi-Fascist army is too much for any kind of resistance especially if not included in the organized CNL. All his partisan friends are captured and sentenced to death Ines close to be captured suicides. Corbari even if survives to a first hanging can't escape to a second one. After WWII he deserved a gold medal to the memory from the Italian Republic.